Cookie Cake Pie Recipes

Have you ever cooked a turducken? In case you don't know what a turducken is, it's a deboned turkey stuffed with a deboned duck stuffed with a deboned chicken. Turduckens are usually stuffed with breadcrumb dressing. Well, the idea for this elaborate dessert is smilar in concept, but a sweet version. I wanted to layer one dessert into another and create a special, sweet treat: a cookie cake pie.

Somehow I managed to wrestle the whole thing together and came up with a dessert that I think made sense. It consisted of an almond passion fruit cheesecake inside an almondine tart, which is stuffed into a vanilla chocolate slivered almond cookie pie and finally layered on puff pastry dough.

I rarely make exactly the same dish twice. Once you've worked on your fundamentals, you can start to use the basic recipe and create dozens of different variations. This unique dessert is a true reflection of my cuisine. I love experimenting with new dishes and seeing my loved ones enjoying the fruit of my labor. Now all I need is to come up with a clever name for this unique dessert!

Baking can never go wrong as long as you follow a few simple rules: use the best quality ingredients, carefully measure accurate quantities and bake at the correct temperature and cooking time. Sunny, my 18-year-old sister-in-law, has made her signature cookie pie so many times, I bet she could prepare this with her eyes closed. She keeps everything very simple using quality butter, organic brown eggs, unbleached flour, pure vanilla extract, Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate and unsulfured, blackstrap molasses (the dark, viscous kind has the highest possible extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane).

Speaking completely objectively on the subject , this is the best cookie pie ever made. We were lucky Sunny prepared 4 batches for our family brunch this weekend. The freshly baked goods were so scrumptious: sinfully rich and soft with gooey pockets of melt-y chocolate. True perfection!